Have any of you been asked when the baby was due.

I was at a friend's house with my fiance discussing the wedding and the friends little sister who is 16 asked if i was pregnant....Im not and i was mortified and embarrassed, i keep thinking how could i have let this happen to myself!!! Has anyone else ever had a similar experience and if so how did you ladies handle it?

Did you smack her? I'm told that etiquette allows for that in these types of situations.

No; but for me that would be really odd. :-)

I've never had this happen to me, I tend to gain weight everywhere, including my stomach, although there have certainly been times I thought I looked preggers. However, it has happened to my step-daughter before, and I've seen how much damage such a seemingly insignificant comment can do to a teenager, she wasn't yet 16. I wish I could shake the people who ask this question without thinking.

I think I'd punch someone in the face if they asked me that...maybe even a kid

I was always told, unless you can see a head coming out.
Or the person says " i cant't wait till this baby is born"
Dont EVER ask if they're pregnant.

Has anyone else heard this?

Yes, my friend has a saying that unless a baby is actually emerging from the person at that moment, don't ask!

This happened to a friend of mine who is not even overweight, BTW, so it can happen to anyone.

I've been asked many many times in very public places. Now when someone asks when I'm due, I just say, "last October and I'm starting to get really impatient waiting for it."

I have been the "asker".

To be fair, I didn't just approach a random woman and ask her this. One of my colleagues got married late last year and all she could talk about was how she was eager to start a family and they planned to er...get on that right away if you catch my drift. She went on vacation, and I saw her after a few months. She is a very slender girl but she was wearing an empire waist dress and had a visible belly where there had been none when I last saw her. I squealed loudly, hugged her, and screamed CONGRATS. She smacked me. I deserved worse.

I know it is mortifying when you are asked this question, but believe you me,you might feel a little better if you knew that there are three kinds of people who ask these question.

1. Jerks- who are doing this just to upset you. They don't deserve the remorse.
2. Innocents- like children or the like who don't know how upsetting it is.
3. Idiots like me, who think they have made a logical deduction but are absolutely horrified when they know they made a mistake and have upset someone.

I am just socially awkward. I don't mean to be mean.

I work with pregnant women every day and have frequently been asked when is my baby due. It used to be daily. Now, its "how have you lost the weight!" Of course, it still happens occasionally, but not like it did. I always laughed it off: "Nope, just fat" and "See, I struggle with this just like everyone else." But it feels VERY good to state that I am finally working on it, and I am setting a good example. Now folks are asking " now that you are loosing the weight, when are you going to get pregnant again?" To most of the world: women are supposed to want to be pregnant. I do admit that part of the motivation to lose weight was to have a heathier future pregancy after obesity related complications with the last two.

People will always lack tact when it comes to discussing someone's weight and not trying to rub pregnant bellies. FYI: good way to combat the rub the pregnant belly request: "only if I can rub your tummy too" Even funnier if that person has a buddha belly.

I have...now I gotta figure out how to get rid of it!!!! Is it sugar? Just flub? WIll sit up's get rid of it? Help!